Enlarge Welcome to Ars Cardboard, our weekend look at tabletop games! Check out our complete board gaming coverage at cardboard.arstechnica.com. On Monday, board gaming’s biggest international prize will be announced. The Spiel des Jahres (Game of the Year) is awarded by a jury of German game critics, and it traditionally goes to a lighter, family-style ..
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If I’m deep-down honest with myself, the reason I love 2001: A Space Odyssey is the same reason I love most Stanley Kubrick films: because I love watching people and things move inevitably from Point A to Point B. He’s done it with spaceships (2001), armies (Barry Lyndon), trenches (Paths of Glory), Big Wheels (The Shining), ..
Nickelodeon After vague teasers and announcements, Nickelodeon and Jhonen Vasquez have finally taken the wraps off the first Invader Zim made-for-TV movie, which is still currently in production. The demented brains behind the series appeared at this week’s San Diego Comic Con with a new trailer in hand, which also confirms the film’s full title: Invader ..
Writer/director James Gunn participates in the Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment And Grasshopper Manufactures “Lollipop Chainsaw” Launch Party held at Gamestop on June 11, 2012 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images) (credit: Getty Images / L. Ortega) James Gunn, the sardonic and openly vulgar writer/director behind both successful Guardians of the Galaxy ..
Enlarge / Ludicrous speed. (credit: Hello Games) The last time Hello Games’ Sean Murray spoke to us, or anyone else in the press, he was still in the pre-launch, hype-building phase for the incredibly ambitious, procedurally generated universe exploration simulator No Man’s Sky. Then the game launched. The summer 2016 release drew some critical praise but also ..
Disney As someone born in the mid-1970s, it’s sometimes hard to wrap my mind around Disney’s stewardship of the Star Wars universe. Being born into the world a few months before what we now know as A New Hope meant waiting a long time between new chapters of this amazing story set a long time ..
Enlarge (credit: Blumhouse) “Dude! This is darknet!” That quote, taken from new low-budget horror film Unfriended: Dark Web, might be all you need to decide whether to buy a ticket. Indeed, this film’s obsession with technical legitimacy inevitably falls into Hollywood pitfalls, because there’s no getting around the trickiness of pacing an entertaining, cheesy film while ..
Enlarge / Don’t expect this to be the setting for a survival-style battle on an ever-shrinking map anytime soon. The stratospheric success of games like Fortnite and Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds in the past year has led to a wave of copycat battle royale survival games and modes. Even franchises like Call of Duty aren’t immune, with ..
Enlarge A Star Citizen backer who went to small claims court seeking a refund of $4,496 he had put toward the long-delayed crowdfunded space sim has seen his case dismissed. Ken Lord, a data scientist from Colorado, had been a massive Star Citizen backer since the game first launched on Kickstarter in 2012. But he’s ..
Enlarge / This is a 2018 title screen, we swear. (credit: Atari / Llamasoft) Ever since 1994’s Tempest 2000, British game developer Jeff Minter has been inextricably linked to Atari. Published by Atari for its Jaguar system, Tempest 2000 was easily among that notorious console’s best, and it combined the spirit of the original Tempest with ..
